Viking Pattern Welded Steel

The swords of the viking age evolved from these with the average blade length remaining relatively constant at about 78 to 81 cm.

Viking pattern welded steel.

When we look at modern industrially produced iron and steel little or no texture is readily apparent without magnification even when the objects have been corroded. Earlier iron and steel. Constructed with riveted tang. Pattern welding is the practice in sword and knife making of forming a blade of several metal pieces of differing composition that are forge welded together and twisted and manipulated to form a pattern.

Viking swords were typically meant for single handed use with the other hand holding a shield. Forging a pattern welded viking sword the complete movie. Often mistakenly called damascus steel blades forged in this manner often display bands of slightly different patterning along their entire length. Take this sword in hand and lead you viking warriors to victory and conquest.

The viking age or carolingian era sword developed in the 8th century from the merovingian sword more specifically the frankish production of swords in the 6th to 7th century itself derived from the roman spatha and during the 11th to. Mechanical damascus steel pattern welded steel structures from twisted piled rods as seen in a yataghan and a viking sword. The torsion of different parts and their subsequent union forms the characteristic geometrical pattern and gives the blade an excellent hardness and strength. The blade of this sword is forged from a blend of 1095 15n20 steel and tempered to create this gorgeous pattern welded damascus steel you see here.

The blades were pattern welded a method of sword making where iron and steel were forge welded together. Together with weapons such as the battle axe and the spear the sword was one of the most useful offensive tools for a viking warrior. The faces of the blade are often flat and the central flat portion is pattern welded with the edges and tip being of non patterned steel.